Lostguy818

It was April 12, Saturday, when the training had started. Nothing happened major in the first 6 days. We just studied and studied and took exams. Our first subject was all about Military Courtesy and Discipline which gave me a grade of 97. I'm so great, right? But the next subject is awful cause i got a low grade of 87. It is the Basic Leadership and Command. If you think this is a very bad grade then how about a grade of 71? I got it from the AFP Organization subject. Anyway, this first three subjects was taught by our very own Captain Nilo H. Dator. Our next subject, The Communication Training, was taught by Sir Francis Nombrefia(Mang Kiko). I got the grade 85 and i just thought "better than 71 right?". He taught us the phonetic alphabet of the military. My name is phonetically spelled as Initial - juliette- echo- foxstrut- foxstrut- romeo- echo- yankee - Initial- tango- Initial- victor- echo- november- zulo- uniform- echo- lima- alpha. Get it? LOL. The last two subjects were the Map Reading and Navigational Exercises and the Public Safety. The Map Reading was taught by 1st. Lt. Frederick Villa. I got 90 points for this subject and as for the Public Safety, I forgot my score but it was taught by Mr. Nombrefia.

The next i don't know, 5 days maybe, i'm really not sure cause i lost track of time. We got a day break and we are asked to come back at Sunday after lunch. I got there with so many stuffs packed. My baggages were so heavy that my hands are all full. The first activity was the Map Navigation. We got a compass and some given angles and distances to search for clues to finish the mission. Fortunately, i was able to find one. Before moving on to the next rounds we have to do some tasks first. This includes salutaions, squat rushes, pumpings, sit-ups and jumping jacks. Moving onwards sometimes we have to imagine a setting and we have to move in various ways like night movement, low crawl and such. The day ended so exhausting and we all have to cook our own dinners. I can hardly remember some of the activities and details but i can tell you that our first subjext was the Fire Prevention where some firemen taught us about fire prevention and safety. The last subject was the First Aid. I don't remember my grades but i do remember that I had a grade of 91 in the Comprehensive Test. It was like the over-all exam. And it was a normal grade but still i managed to have higher grades than Loren who was awfully comparing himself to me. He's just so annoying.

The Physical

There only 4 activities i considered as "physical" during the training. First stop is the Tree Planting. I considered it as physical because it is really exhausting because we have to walk, i don't know, like 1 or 2 kilometers and not to mention those blood-sucking things. Thank God! It didn't get into my skin. Next is the Resquing thing. Its where we travel in the river using this improvised raft to transfer everyone to another land. Its cool because of all the water stuff and us pulling the rope and some people falling off the raft. It was fun but not that crazy. I think what's crazy is the blood-sucking thing on my combat shoes. Before i knew it, it went through the part where it was fabric and it actually got a little bigger and it was so disgusting. I asked helped from Ebe to remove it and at first we had a hard time doing it because i think it really was been there for quite some time and i can feel its mouth being removed from my skin so i felt goosebumps all over. For like another 10 seconds, it was removed and i was so relieved. The next wasn't really an activity. It was more like a series of actions. The 10-15 seconds of changing your clothes, the punishments when you're not in time and the jogging of 3-4 rounds around the LHS and Library. It was pretty tiring. The most exciting activity was the rope course. I must admit i really did well because i didn't have to repeat but i can leave you with two words. It Burns!

Mr. Deeds

For all of you to know, i wanted to become the battalion commander. I know! Crazy, right? So in order to have their trusts or something i decided to play a very good role. The Helping Hand. I don't know but i really had been helpful those days. I help some of the girls chop firewood. Lift them up or helping them across something and of course i helped almost everyone with the Rope Course and the Resque Operation.

The Vote

This is like the most final part. You have to rate everyone except yourself and then you have to put you're to votes of Battalion Commander. I put myself and Ian. Then next you have to put your two dream positions. I put Battalion Commander and Headquarters Company Commander. Well, it's just a dream, right?

The Graduation, The Picnic and The Designation

Preparation

The days went by so quickly that i didn't notice it was already the Graduation day. I got all excited because the designation will be given there but during the program it was announced that the designation will be given in the picnic. So i have to wait longer for the picnic. In the day of the picnic we had Initiation, Baptismal and Designation. But before all of that we had a very busy preparation. Actually, it was assigned for the officers to do it but since they stopped by at our house, i decided to take some time off to help.

They morning of the picnic, we prepared the foods. After cooking and making all of them, Meng, Christine and Robin decided to eat at our place and we ate some of the food. Hehehe. Don't worry cause we took only a few. After eating, everyone went home and i started packing then out of the blue, Meng rushed into the house and said that we need to go to the school now. I found out that Sir Dator sent her a text message that says that we must get the extra utensils needed this morning. It was originally scheduled that afternoon but it was moved and we are in a hurry only to find out that Sir Dator already left. I was worried because i thought that he'll be pissed. We called him and he doesn't seem to be pissed or anything.

We arrived at the venue and we still don't have a cottage to put our bags down so we waited for like half an hour until the people in 'our' cottage' leave. After dropping our bags, we all agreed that its alright to start swimming and then the senior officers started arriving. They asked why are we already in the pool in a mean kind of way and we are all like fine whatever and we all left the pool and dried ourselves. While 'drying', the senior officers started to talk smack about us, i mean why are they so mean. Then Sir Dator arrived and the time passed by so quickly and we are still not allowed to swim.

Initiation

The night fell and it is Initiation time. First stop we have to do 10 pumpings... underwater! Loren was my partner since its alphabetically paired but still... he was just slow! then we are asked to turn under the water for like 2 times. Then we did 7 push-ups. Don't worry it didn't happen in the pool. Then we danced our dance number in the prom(Whine-up). We were supposed to dance the girls' number but we said that we didn't know the steps so we performed ours. then the next part is where we danced to a novelty song(Sayaw Darling) and played a game(Hep hep Hurray!) then we are asked to sing the song Harana by word while doing pumpings. I forgot the last station. Hehehe. The last stop was we have to eat sili. My plan is to not bite it but we had to. Its very hot and it's so obvious... and so am i. Hah! We spent the rest of our night with freedom to swim and a very uncomfortable sleep with a very cold air.

Designation

The designation was announced during the morning. I was the Class Marcher at that moment and Sir Dator called the two nominees for being Battalion Commander. It was Meng and Ofiana. It was such a slap in the face because i was in the middle of the two of them while Sir Dator was implying that the TWO of them are his choices and i was like "did he do this in purpose?" but anyways check out the designations here.

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